Presentations

I have given 70+ talks and keynotes in four continents (Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania), speaking on topics like component design, style-guide-driven development, agile, information architecture, CSS, PostCSS, Sass, and responsive design.

— New Orleans

Six Easy Pieces for the New Front-end Development

conference: Drupalcon New Orleans 2016

Modern front-end devolopment has become a tangle of fast-moving technologies. Our job is to implement HTML, CSS, image formats, and JavaScript, but with over 200,000 JavaScript projects on NPM alone, how do you find and learn about the best tools and techinques? And even after we've learned a new tool, it can feel like our skills are soon out-dated.

Frontendia: a path from "Ye Olde Selector Hell" through the "Sea of Specificity" and past the "Isles of NPM installs"
— Los Angeles

Drupal 9 Components Library: The next theme system

conference: Drupalcon Los Angeles 2015

For every version of Drupal I can remember, if a module wanted to display content, it had to provide the default HTML and CSS for it. This paradigm has served us well for years, but its time to radically improve the re-usability of our HTML and CSS by implementing a core components library.

Drupalcon Los Angeles: Drupal 9 Components Library
— Melbourne

Style-guide-driven Development

conference: Drupal South 2015

We suck at what we do. We know the websites we build need excellent front-end performance, full accessibility, compelling designs, and reusable parts. We learn. We plan. We build. We make a mad scramble to finish on time and deliver a product that falls short of what we know we could have achieved. Every. Single. Time.

Structure of component library: base, layout, components: element, modifier, state, skin
— Taipei

Drupal is more than code

Keynote for camp: Drupalcamp Taipei 2014

Keynote for the second day of Drupalcamp Taipei.

The software industry has a diversity problem. If we want better software, we need diversity.

Results of our experiment. 11 total groups. 8 "diverse" groups, 3 "non-diverse" groups. In the non-diverse groups, there were no correct answers. In mixed-gender groups, 73% got the correct answer. In single-gender groups, 43% got the correct answer.
— Taipei

Paying for Drupal

Keynote for camp: Drupalcamp Taipei 2014

Keynote for the first day of Drupalcamp Taipei.

Because Drupal is free, in fairness, you should volunteer to make Drupal.

Volunteers pay for Drupal. 2215 contributors to Drupal 8. 100s of code sprint organizers. 100s of translators.
— Canberra

The New Front-end Work Flow: from ticketing to building

conference: DrupalGov Canberra 2014

We've been doing it wrong. Our CSS sucks. Our ticketing structure is flawed. Our estimates are a joke. For over a decade, we've been styling websites using a top-left to bottom-right methodology with selectors chosen almost at random. Since we haven't been planning our entire front-end before building it, is it any wonder our ticketing system and estimates are so wrong?

Prehistory: 1992 - Gopher rules the earth
— Austin

Twig is dead. Long live web components!

conference: Drupalcon Austin 2014

<hyperbole-alert>Everyone is excited about Drupal 8’s Twig system, but it's already dead to me.</hyperbole-alert> The W3C is working on a specification for a templating system that is native to the HTML language, called Web Components.

Twig is fine. I'm just trolling MortenDK.